This study focuses on the impact of financial inclusion and bank concentration on the performance of firms in developing and emerging countries. Using firm-level data for a sample of 55,596 firms in 79 countries, we find that financial inclusion, i.e. the distribution of financial services...

Climate change has both immediate and long-term consequences on the debt trajectories of developing countries. Their high physical vulnerability to global warming and the increase in natural disasters, combined with lower socio-economic resilience (food and agricultural insecurity, high...

The objective of the Chair in International Architecture of Development Finance (IADF) is to "reflect independently about what the global development finance system should become in light of the current international situation and the lessons learned from the experience of the past 60 years."...

[fre] Dans un contexte de ralentissement de la distribution des crédits et de montée rapide du risque de solvabilité de la clientèle résidente depuis 1990, la tarification des crédits, et plus particulièrement la tarification du risque de crédit, a pris une importance particulière....